NURS 311 EXAM 1 Ch 1-4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Difference between mental health vs. mental illness/disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mental health:
The emotional & psychological well-being of an individual.
Mental illness/disorder: Health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior
and are associated w/ distress or impaired functioning.
What is the DSM-5-TR? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A book that organizes psychiatric diagnosis according to
behaviors and symptom patterns.
What defines a healthy person? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Good physical and mental health.
What is the concept of wellness and it dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Good physical and mental
health characterize wellness.
Individuals can have a mental disorder and experience wellness.
Define Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of patterns of disease distribution within
populations.
Define Rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Cases in population/total cases and noncases
Define Incidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rate including only new cases occurring within defined time
period (usually 1 year)
Define Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Total number with disorder in a population at a specified
time (t).
What are the 3 ways stigma can be viewed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Self Stigma
-Public Stigma
-Label Avoidance
, Self Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Person w/ mental illness shares the publics negative view of mental
illness.
Public Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Marks a person as having a mental illness.
Label Avoidance Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅If person w/ mental illness does not seek treatment b/c
of fear of being labeled "mentally ill"
What is the single most important goals for the mental health delivery system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Mental health recovery.
What is recovery viewed as in the mental health world? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Process of changes
through which individuals improve their health and wellness
- Live a self directed life
- Strive to reach their full potential
Define Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A way of life that manifests the learned beliefs, values, and
accepted behaviors that are transmitted socially within a specific group.
Cultural Identity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helps to define expected behavior.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Based on a set of skills that allows
individuals to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities
within, among, and between groups.
Cultural Humility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Open and willing to reflect on oneself as a cultural being and
open to hearing about and striving to understand the cultural background and identity of others.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Socialization process; learning and adoption of selective aspects
of dominant culture
Difference between mental health vs. mental illness/disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mental health:
The emotional & psychological well-being of an individual.
Mental illness/disorder: Health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior
and are associated w/ distress or impaired functioning.
What is the DSM-5-TR? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A book that organizes psychiatric diagnosis according to
behaviors and symptom patterns.
What defines a healthy person? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Good physical and mental health.
What is the concept of wellness and it dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Good physical and mental
health characterize wellness.
Individuals can have a mental disorder and experience wellness.
Define Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The study of patterns of disease distribution within
populations.
Define Rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Cases in population/total cases and noncases
Define Incidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rate including only new cases occurring within defined time
period (usually 1 year)
Define Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Total number with disorder in a population at a specified
time (t).
What are the 3 ways stigma can be viewed? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Self Stigma
-Public Stigma
-Label Avoidance
, Self Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Person w/ mental illness shares the publics negative view of mental
illness.
Public Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Marks a person as having a mental illness.
Label Avoidance Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅If person w/ mental illness does not seek treatment b/c
of fear of being labeled "mentally ill"
What is the single most important goals for the mental health delivery system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Mental health recovery.
What is recovery viewed as in the mental health world? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Process of changes
through which individuals improve their health and wellness
- Live a self directed life
- Strive to reach their full potential
Define Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A way of life that manifests the learned beliefs, values, and
accepted behaviors that are transmitted socially within a specific group.
Cultural Identity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helps to define expected behavior.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Based on a set of skills that allows
individuals to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities
within, among, and between groups.
Cultural Humility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Open and willing to reflect on oneself as a cultural being and
open to hearing about and striving to understand the cultural background and identity of others.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Socialization process; learning and adoption of selective aspects
of dominant culture
